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|familia=Convolvulaceae
|genus=Ipomoea
|species=pandurata
|common_name=Wild Potato Vine, Big-rooted Morning Glory, Man-of-the-Earth, Manroot
|habit=vine-climber
|lifespan=perennial
|exposure=sun
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|flowers=pink, single, double
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'''''Ipomoea pandurata''''' the '''Wild Potato Vine''', '''Big-rooted Morning Glory''' or '''Man-of-the-Earth''' is a species of [[herbaceous]] [[perennial plant|perennial]] [[vine]]. Another common name is '''"[[manroot]]"''', but that typically refers to the quite unrelated [[gourd]] [[genus]] ''[[manroot|Marah]]''.
It is rarely cultivated but grows wild in North America appearing along roadsides, in fields and along fence rows. It sustains itself over the winter with a [[Tuber|tuberous root]] similar to its better known relative, the [[Sweet Potato]] (''I. batatas'').
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Ipomoea pandurata, G. F. W. Mey. Man-of-the-earth. Wild Potato-vine. St. 2-12 ft. long: root very long and large (10-20 pounds): lvs. 2-4 in. long, long- petioled, usually cordate and entire, occasionally angulate, fiddle-shape or hastately 3-lobed: peduncles 1-5-fld., commonly a little longer than the petioles; corolla 2-4 in. wide, broadly funnelform with pointed lobes, white with a dark purple throat. May-Sept. Dry soils, Canada to Fla., west to Ont. and Texas. A.G.12:637. R.H. 1893:574. B.M. 1603 (as Convolvulus candicans), 1939, and Gn. 27, p. 373 (both as C. panduralus). B.R. 588.—In some places this species is a very troublesome weed, which is almost impossible to exterminate because of its long tuberous roots.
Ipomoea pandurata, G. F. W. Mey. Man-of-the-earth. Wild Potato-vine. St. 2-12 ft. long: root very long and large (10-20 pounds): lvs. 2-4 in. long, long- petioled, usually cordate and entire, occasionally angulate, fiddle-shape or hastately 3-lobed: peduncles 1-5-fld., commonly a little longer than the petioles; corolla 2-4 in. wide, broadly funnelform with pointed lobes, white with a dark purple throat. May-Sept. Dry soils, Canada to Fla., west to Ont. and Texas.—In some places this species is a very troublesome weed, which is almost impossible to exterminate because of its long tuberous roots.
It can easily be kept within bounds in the garden with a little care, and makes a very desirable plant for covering an old dead stump or back fence. The chief merit of I. pandurata as a garden plant is its hardiness; hence it is often sold as the "hardy" or "perennial moonflower." If well mulched the roots will stand 26° below zero. There is a double-fld. form. It is sometimes escaped in cult, grounds.
It can easily be kept within bounds in the garden with a little care, and makes a very desirable plant for covering an old dead stump or back fence. The chief merit of I. pandurata as a garden plant is its hardiness; hence it is often sold as the "hardy" or "perennial moonflower." If well mulched the roots will stand 26° below zero. There is a double-fld. form. It is sometimes escaped in cult, grounds.
